From top: Production images from Joan Jonas, They Come to Us without a Word (2015), (2), images courtesy the artist; Joan Jonas, They Come to Us without a Word II(2015) at the Venice Biennale, performance with Jason Moran at Teatro Piccolo Arsenale, July, 2015, photograph by Moira Ricci; Jonas (right) with Michelle Obama (center) and Malia Obama, June 20, 2015, U.S. Pavilion, Venice Biennale, photograph by Andreas Solaro/AFP/Getty Images; Jonas performing Moving Off the Land, Ocean—Sketches and Notes (2018), at Danspace Project, New York, photograph by Ian Douglas, image courtesy of Danspace Project; production images from Joan Jonas, They Come to Us without a Word, image courtesy the artist.

“PARISLA is born of shared perspectives. It’s a project, like a love story, that comes from the feeling of being in one place, thinking about another. A place between two cities, between scenes, between people, that exists only in the space of our imagination. In Paris, dreaming of the Pacific. Speaking French in LA. And it’s as true as a clear blue sky above us.”—Dorothée Perret, founding editor (Paris, November 9, 2008)